Dimitriu - When we are the other
The preservation of the term as such in the translation would have, again, a strong
defamiliarizing effect.
Hoffman's wrongly transcribed names of people (*Daian Daianu instead of
Daniel Daianu, a Romanian public figure; 1999, p. 259) and places (e.g. *Piata
324 R. Dimitriu
Natiunile Unite, 1999, p. 272, *Piata Universitate, p. 302, *Ghermanest, p. 271,
*Vladicescu, p. 270, etc.), which pass unobserved by the source text readers, may